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Vanderbilt Law Review

Decision at Law

By David W. Peck.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.,1961. Pp. vii, 303.

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Corporation Lawyer: Saint or Sinner? By Beryl Harold Levy.

Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Co., 1961. Pp. x, 175.

reviewer: Elliott E. Cheatham

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Criminal Psychology Edited by Richard W. Nice. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1962. Pp. 284.

reviewer: J. Paschall Davis

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Symposium on the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 Edited by Ralph Slovenko. Baton Rouge: Claitor's Bookstore, 1961. Pp. xliv, 1237. $20.00.

reviewer: Robert N. Covington

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Handling Accident Cases, Vol. 3

By Albert Averbach.

Rochester: The Lawyers …

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Criminal Law--Defense Of Others, Charles Henry Rudolph Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Legal, Medical And Psychiatric Considerations In The Control Of Prostitution, B. J. George Jr.

Michigan Law Review

In common with other nations of the world the United States today as in the past is faced with the problem of controlling prostitution, particularly in urban areas. At one time or another states and cities in the United States have experimented with the classic methods of controlling prostitution: reglementation, segregation and repression. Reglementation of individual houses or prostitutes has never been carried out on a statewide basis in any state in the United States, though one can find instances in certain large cities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in which city ordinances or de facto police regulations …

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Donnelly, Goldstein & Schwartz: Criminal Law, B. J. George Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Criminal Law. By Richard C. Donnelly, Joseph Goldstein and Richard D. Schwartz.

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Wills - Probate - "Fraudulent" Destruction Notwithstanding Testator's Knowledge, Alan Rothenberg

Michigan Law Review

Decedent executed a will in which he exercised a general testamentary power of appointment making plaintiff beneficiary of a trust. The will was delivered for safekeeping to a notary in Germany and subsequently destroyed in a bombing raid. Decedent, having learned of the destruction of his will, died ten months later without executing a new will in the interim. The Surrogate admitted the will for probate as one "fraudulently destroyed" under New York law. The Appellate Division reversed. On appeal to the New York Court of Appeals, held, reversed, three judges dissenting. The will was "fraudulently destroyed" within the meaning …

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Alcoholism As A Medicolegal Problem, John M. Macdonald

Cleveland State Law Review

Medico-legal aspects of alcoholism include determination ofcriminal responsibility, medical evaluation of drunken drivers, interpretation of chemical tests of intoxication and the involuntary commitment of alcoholics to mental hospitals. The policymaking functions of attorneys, both in public positions such as membership in the legislature, and in private practice demand knowledge of the origins, course and social consequences of the disease.

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Alcoholism As A Medicolegal Problem, John M. Macdonald

Cleveland State Law Review

Medico-legal aspects of alcoholism include determination ofcriminal responsibility, medical evaluation of drunken drivers, interpretation of chemical tests of intoxication and the involuntary commitment of alcoholics to mental hospitals. The policymaking functions of attorneys, both in public positions such as membership in the legislature, and in private practice demand knowledge of the origins, course and social consequences of the disease.

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Defense Of An Intoxicated Motorist, Carl H. Miller

Cleveland State Law Review

This examination into the various aspects of defending an intoxicated driver is by no means complete. Its purpose is to indicate the problem areas in which the most care must be taken in order to insure the constitutional rights of the client.The great majority of individuals charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor are convicted, and in most cases, rightly so. It is that small percentage of individuals wrongfully charged, or if rightfully charged, wrongfully convicted, that concerns the writer.

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